This module is not currently running in 2023 to 2024.
Students will be expected to read a set of ethnographies over the course of 24 weeks. A three hour seminar will be held to discuss each work. For each seminar, students will be expected to prepare, for evaluation, a book review. In discussing each study substantive issues concerning the case studies will be highlighted. Theoretical issues will be raised concerning the representation of anthropological knowledge, book organization and writing styles, and the relationship between theoretical perspective and presentation. In addition attention will be drawn to the way fieldwork and ethical issues are presented and discussed in ethnographies.
Total contact hours: 24
Private study hours: 126
Total study hours: 150
MSc Ethnobotany
MA/MSc Environmental Anthropology
Essay: 100% (Collection of analytic notes, one for each book, each max of 1500 words)
Reassessment methods: Like for Like
Reading list (Indicative list, current at time of publication. Reading lists will be published annually)
Cruikshank, Julie. 2005. Do Glaciers Listen? UBC Press.
McCabe, J. Terrence. 2004. Cattle Bring Us to Our Enemies. U. Michigan.
Crawford, David. 2008. Moroccan Households in the World Economy. Louisiana State UP.
Heatherington, Tracy 2011. Wild Sardinia. U.Washington.
Dove, Michael. 2011. Banana at the Gate. Yale.
Barnes, Jessica. 2014. Cultivating the Nile. Duke.
Kohn, Eduardo. 2013. How Forests Think. UC Press.
Tsing, Anna 2015. The Mushroom at the End of the World. Princeton.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes. On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
8.1 identify contemporary theoretical and applied problems in environmental anthropology
8.2 discuss critically the structure, style and content of ethnographic writing
8.3 discuss critically a range of ethnographies containing environmental anthropological information
8.4 review critically book-length ethnographies.
The intended generic learning outcomes. On successfully completing the module students will be able to:
9.1 appraise the value of ethnographic descriptions in environmental anthropology
9.2 compare and contrast different theoretical approaches to the understanding of human-environment relationships
9.3 discuss abstract arguments at a high level of sophistication with their peers.
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